After six years in prison, Leo Duvnjac is going free. Prosecuted for numerous crimes - including 10 bank robberies, planting a bomb in Stockholm's Central Station, and pulling off northern Europe's largest-ever weapons theft - he was convicted of just two robberies. Unreformed, Leo has spent his imprisonment plotting one final heist, but he only has a brief window following his release to pull it off. The plan is to steal more than 100 million Swedish crowns from Sweden's largest police station and then disappear forever.

Blue Monday

Frieda Klein, Book 1

By:
Nicci French

Narrated by:
Beth Chalmers

Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,246

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,134

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,136

Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for just such a child.

3 out of 5 stars

Not in the same league as Tana French, but okay.

By
Amazon Customer
on
08-26-12

The Wrong Sister

By:
T. E. Woods

Narrated by:
Angela Dawe

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
83

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
81

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
80

From behind the wheel of her car, Tess Kincaid glimpses a woman walking down a Madison, Wisconsin, street. They've never met, but Tess sees the same features every time she looks in the mirror. Tess introduces herself and discovers that she and her doppelganger, Mimi, have more than appearance in common. They even share the same birthday. Mimi - confident and outgoing where Tess is understated and shy - is convinced they're twins, separated shortly after birth. When a body is discovered in a local marsh, Tess is entangled in a search for the truth....

5 out of 5 stars

Nothing like anything T E Woods has written B4!!!

By
shelley
on
03-01-18

Down the River unto the Sea

By:
Walter Mosley

Narrated by:
Dion Graham

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
124

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
118

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
117

Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in equal measure while behind bars, his work and his daughter are the only light in his solitary life. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid to frame him those years ago, King realizes that he has no choice.

5 out of 5 stars

Thoughtful mystery

By
Elese Newman
on
02-28-18

Call Me Princess

By:
Sara Blaedel

Narrated by:
Alice Barrett Mitchell

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
50

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
42

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
42

An online flirtation can have horrific consequences, as Detective Inspector Louise Rick discovers when she is called to an idyllic Copenhagen neighborhood where a young woman has been left bound and gagged after a profoundly brutal rape attack. Susanne Hansson met her rapist on a popular dating website; fearing the assailant is trolling the site for his next target, Louise is determined to cut him off at the pass. But then a new victim is found - dead this time - and the case becomes even more complex when Susanne attempts suicide.

3 out of 5 stars

Something went wrong for me

By
green ice cream garden
on
10-06-17

The Chalk Man

A Novel

By:
C. J. Tudor

Narrated by:
Euan Morton

Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
887

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
845

Story

4 out of 5 stars
843

In 1986, Eddie and his friend are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code; little chalk stick figures they leave for each other as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing will ever be the same.

3 out of 5 stars

Sufficiently interesting and fast paced

By
Aquakittie
on
01-16-18

The Sons

Made in Sweden, Part II

By:
Anton Svensson,
Elizabeth Clark Wessel - translator

Narrated by:
Gunnar Cauthery

Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

After six years in prison, Leo Duvnjac is going free. Prosecuted for numerous crimes - including 10 bank robberies, planting a bomb in Stockholm's Central Station, and pulling off northern Europe's largest-ever weapons theft - he was convicted of just two robberies. Unreformed, Leo has spent his imprisonment plotting one final heist, but he only has a brief window following his release to pull it off. The plan is to steal more than 100 million Swedish crowns from Sweden's largest police station and then disappear forever.

Blue Monday

Frieda Klein, Book 1

By:
Nicci French

Narrated by:
Beth Chalmers

Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,246

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,134

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,136

Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for just such a child.

3 out of 5 stars

Not in the same league as Tana French, but okay.

By
Amazon Customer
on
08-26-12

The Wrong Sister

By:
T. E. Woods

Narrated by:
Angela Dawe

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
83

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
81

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
80

From behind the wheel of her car, Tess Kincaid glimpses a woman walking down a Madison, Wisconsin, street. They've never met, but Tess sees the same features every time she looks in the mirror. Tess introduces herself and discovers that she and her doppelganger, Mimi, have more than appearance in common. They even share the same birthday. Mimi - confident and outgoing where Tess is understated and shy - is convinced they're twins, separated shortly after birth. When a body is discovered in a local marsh, Tess is entangled in a search for the truth....

5 out of 5 stars

Nothing like anything T E Woods has written B4!!!

By
shelley
on
03-01-18

Down the River unto the Sea

By:
Walter Mosley

Narrated by:
Dion Graham

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
124

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
118

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
117

Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in equal measure while behind bars, his work and his daughter are the only light in his solitary life. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid to frame him those years ago, King realizes that he has no choice.

5 out of 5 stars

Thoughtful mystery

By
Elese Newman
on
02-28-18

Call Me Princess

By:
Sara Blaedel

Narrated by:
Alice Barrett Mitchell

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
50

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
42

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
42

An online flirtation can have horrific consequences, as Detective Inspector Louise Rick discovers when she is called to an idyllic Copenhagen neighborhood where a young woman has been left bound and gagged after a profoundly brutal rape attack. Susanne Hansson met her rapist on a popular dating website; fearing the assailant is trolling the site for his next target, Louise is determined to cut him off at the pass. But then a new victim is found - dead this time - and the case becomes even more complex when Susanne attempts suicide.

3 out of 5 stars

Something went wrong for me

By
green ice cream garden
on
10-06-17

The Chalk Man

A Novel

By:
C. J. Tudor

Narrated by:
Euan Morton

Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
887

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
845

Story

4 out of 5 stars
843

In 1986, Eddie and his friend are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code; little chalk stick figures they leave for each other as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing will ever be the same.

3 out of 5 stars

Sufficiently interesting and fast paced

By
Aquakittie
on
01-16-18

When It Grows Dark

By:
Jørn Lier Horst

Narrated by:
Saul Reichlin

Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
64

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
63

Story

4 out of 5 stars
62

Stavern, 1983. After a brutal robbery, a young policeman named William Wisting is edged off the investigation by more experienced officers, but soon he is on another case that has not even been recognised as murder. Forgotten in a dilapidated barn stands a bullet-riddled old car, and it looks as if the driver did not get out alive. This case will shape William Wisting as a policeman and give him insight that he will carry with him for the rest of his career.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

By
Ronald
on
10-25-17

The Take

By:
Christopher Reich

Narrated by:
Paul Michael

Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
153

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
147

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
147

Riske is a freelance industrial spy who, despite his job title, lives a mostly quiet life above his auto garage in central London. He has avoided big, messy jobs - until now. A gangster by the name of Tino Coluzzi - once a compatriot of Riske - has orchestrated the greatest street heist in the history of Paris: a visiting Saudi prince had his pockets lightened of millions in cash, and something else. Hidden within a stolen briefcase is a secret letter that could upend the balance of power in the Western world. The Russians have already killed in an attempt to get it back.

1 out of 5 stars

Disappointing

By
Janet
on
03-08-18

Force of Nature

A Novel

By:
Jane Harper

Narrated by:
Stephen Shanahan

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
462

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
431

Story

4 out of 5 stars
429

When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker.

4 out of 5 stars

Excellent New Series Continues

By
Sara
on
02-16-18

The Shadow District

By:
Arnaldur Indridason

Narrated by:
George Guidall

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
253

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
228

Story

4 out of 5 stars
228

A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk, the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavik's National Theatre. Konrad, a former detective, is bored with retirement and remembers the crime. He grew up in "the shadow district", a rough neighborhood bordered by the National Theatre. Why would someone be interested in that crime now?

5 out of 5 stars

A slow burn!

By
Rosemary
on
12-12-17

Killed in Action

An Equalizer Novel

By:
Michael Sloan

Narrated by:
Jeff Gurner

Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
74

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
73

Story

4 out of 5 stars
72

Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer. McCall’s first client is a distraught mother who is desperate to locate her young daughter, drawn into the shadowy world of white slavery. But this client may not be all she appears to be.

5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding book! Hope there will be more...

By
shelley
on
02-01-18

After the Fire

By:
Henning Mankell,
Marlaine Delargy - translator

Narrated by:
Sean Barrett

Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
70

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
59

Story

4 out of 5 stars
60

Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees, and his mailman, Jansson, is the closest thing he has to a friend and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out his days in quiet solitude. One autumn evening, he is startled awake by a blinding light - only to discover that his house is on fire. With the help of Jansson, he escapes the flames just in time wearing two left boots.

1 out of 5 stars

Most boring book this year

By
David
on
11-16-17

The Fix

A Rick Fuller Thriller, Book 1

By:
Robert White

Narrated by:
Nicholas Camm

Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
19

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
17

Story

4 out of 5 stars
17

In the winter of 1996, on the orders of the British government, the SAS stole the contents of a safe belonging to the Provisional IRA. Rick Fuller headed that team. Days later Fuller's wife was brutally murdered. Convinced he was betrayed from within, Fuller begins a relentless search for her murderers. Ten years on, Fuller is a Manchester gangland enforcer, a lone and bitter figure.

The Gray Man

By:
Mark Greaney

Narrated by:
Jay Snyder

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12,153

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
10,481

Story

4 out of 5 stars
10,465

Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man - a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.

5 out of 5 stars

Action packed, edge of your seat "page-turner"

By
Jason Spencer
on
09-01-10

The Terminal List

A Thriller

By:
Jack Carr

Narrated by:
Ray Porter

Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
250

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
244

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
245

On his last combat deployment, Lt. Cmdr. James Reece's entire team was killed in an ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government. Now, with no family and free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he's learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward revenge.

5 out of 5 stars

Make way for Jack Carr!!!!

By
shelley
on
03-08-18

Dead Irish

A Dismas Hardy Novel

By:
John Lescroart

Narrated by:
David Colacci

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
935

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
738

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
736

In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss - but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts.

5 out of 5 stars

Soap-opera thrillers?

By
Snoodely
on
01-27-10

The Crow Trap

A Vera Stanhope Mystery

By:
Ann Cleeves

Narrated by:
Anne Dover

Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
635

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
574

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
566

Three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal.... For team leader Rachael Lambert, the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty of her own secrets to hide....

5 out of 5 stars

Worth the Wait

By
Marina
on
02-26-17

Sunburn

A Novel

By:
Laura Lippman

Narrated by:
Susan Bennett

Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
202

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
190

Story

4 out of 5 stars
189

They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he's also passing through. Yet she stays, and he stays - drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other - dangerous, even lethal secrets. Then someone dies. Was it an accident or part of a plan? By now Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other's lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away.

4 out of 5 stars

Outstanding Mystery

By
Jim N
on
02-25-18

Publisher's Summary

A thrilling, unforgettable crime novel about three brothers who became Sweden's most wanted criminals, inspired by the unbelievable true story

How does a child become a criminal? How does a father lose a son?

An epic crime novel with the excitement of Jo Nesbo's Headhunters and the narrative depth of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who committed 10 audacious bank robberies in Sweden over the course of just two years.

None had committed a crime before. All were under 24 years old. When their incredible spree had come to an end amid the glare of the international media, all of them would be changed forever as individuals and as a family.

This intoxicating, heartbreaking thriller tells the story of how three boys are transformed over the course of their lives from innocent children to the most wanted criminals in Sweden. And of the man who made them that way: their father.